GMB - "Britain's General Union" consists of over 700,000 members. The union today is the sum of a number of mergers of longstanding trades unions covering several production and service sectors and trades.
GMB Lancashire Region - Information about the benefits, services and discounts offered by the union.
Lewisham GMB - Representing workers in South East London, principally aligned to local government. Defending employment rights individually, corporately and nationally.
Leicester Services GMB branch L37 - Local government branch for members at Leicester City Council. Includes newsletters and membership benefits.
Leicester GMB Learning Links: L3 project - Information about union workplace learning, learner reps and basic skill provision within Leicester City and County Councils, includes resource material and L3 project information.
GMB Southern Region - Regional news and information on law and health and safety with newsletter.
The Standard Worker - GMB Hull Standard Works branch, representing members in Ideal-Standards Ltd., with information information on health and safety, legal rights and company policies.
GMB London Region - Regional news, campaigns and steward training courses.
Northern Region GMB - Regional union branch. Includes branch news, contacts and campaigns.
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne GMB "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) GMB
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein GMB Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri GMB
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin GMB His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) GMB
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle GMB I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) GMB
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) GMB For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. GMB
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers GMB It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. GMB
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 GMB Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus GMB
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) GMB He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx GMB
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn GMB It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll GMB
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p GMB The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw GMB
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton GMB "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I GMB
